Emacs, AucTex, MikTeX, Aspell.

I got all the odd GNU stuff that I use working well on my new windows system in less than 2 days not the weeks that its taken me on previous installations. I can't say that it Microsoft was responsible for this feat either. Did you know that they finally got rid of the autoexec.bat? It sure took them long enough. The funny thing is that they didn't fix sysedit so that it would stop trying to open this now non-existent file. I had a moment of panic until Geoff clued me in. Not only couldn't I set the HOME variable, but it sure looked like I had deleted a formerly important file.


Why am I posting this? Well, I'm pretty sure that no one's reading this blog, so it makes a fine spot to pat myself on the back for this little achievement. It's the sort of thing that seems pretty trivial to anyone who can understand it and arcane to everyone else.